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Episode 99: Bracket Journaling
Posted by Reinhard on 2025-10-30
Moleskines for Monkey Mind
https://podcast.everydaysystems.com/episode/99/
Podcast #99: Bracket Journaling
Re: Podcast #99: Bracket Journaling
That was beautifully insane to read. Promoting a small t to capital T, by putting a line on top? Veering into direction, like a tornado? As if the bracketing and scheduled reviewing wasnt cool enough in itself.
I keep a really thick file with collection of vomit-papers, dating back to early 2000s which i dont think are reviewable, but I don't want to throw them out either. I am pre-mortified, so i never really open the file.
Even though a big fan of notebooks , mailny for drawing, only a couple years ago i started to keep a "regular" notebook, with daily entries, but mostly for work: tasks (a pers. punchcard essentially, but within the notebook) and "while-do" lists (a method that enables me to actually work on a computer without being distracted instatntly. I write a numbered task, then immediately do it, cross out, write the next one..)
Recently i did start to include a micro diary entry, but not always. This scheduled review concept sheds a new light and i will definitely give it a go, since usually when i try to review the entries, it is too ureadable and mostly crossed out, so i give up.
P.s. Spekaing of punch cards: at some point i felt the need for in-day scheduling, besides work/personal prioritization, so now i first make the big cross creating two columns (of course) but also two "rows", or to put it more acurately - 4 quadrants of the day with a couple of lines each. This gives me good enough "around the clock" feeling. Left column starts at the bottom , climbing up to the "noon" and then the right column goes down to "6pm". Horizontal "9am-3pm" line makes a great (well, good enough anyways) anchor when glancing at the list though out the day, and now that I think of it , the cross does remind of a letter t, as in "tasks". I might start to promote it to capital at the end of the day.
I keep a really thick file with collection of vomit-papers, dating back to early 2000s which i dont think are reviewable, but I don't want to throw them out either. I am pre-mortified, so i never really open the file.
Even though a big fan of notebooks , mailny for drawing, only a couple years ago i started to keep a "regular" notebook, with daily entries, but mostly for work: tasks (a pers. punchcard essentially, but within the notebook) and "while-do" lists (a method that enables me to actually work on a computer without being distracted instatntly. I write a numbered task, then immediately do it, cross out, write the next one..)
Recently i did start to include a micro diary entry, but not always. This scheduled review concept sheds a new light and i will definitely give it a go, since usually when i try to review the entries, it is too ureadable and mostly crossed out, so i give up.
P.s. Spekaing of punch cards: at some point i felt the need for in-day scheduling, besides work/personal prioritization, so now i first make the big cross creating two columns (of course) but also two "rows", or to put it more acurately - 4 quadrants of the day with a couple of lines each. This gives me good enough "around the clock" feeling. Left column starts at the bottom , climbing up to the "noon" and then the right column goes down to "6pm". Horizontal "9am-3pm" line makes a great (well, good enough anyways) anchor when glancing at the list though out the day, and now that I think of it , the cross does remind of a letter t, as in "tasks". I might start to promote it to capital at the end of the day.